Flu: Not the first Cochrane study that I’ve doubted. It also doesn’t seem to talk about herd immunity benefits.
SCC: That estimate seems to not take into account decreasing nutritional content due to higher CO2, and more importantly, seems to declare disasters totally out of scope.
“While in 1970, only 1% of the American population was obese”. Not true, the article says: “A half-century ago, about 1 in 100 American adults were severely obese” (the corresponding figure for 2020 is “more than 9%”).
Flu: Not the first Cochrane study that I’ve doubted. It also doesn’t seem to talk about herd immunity benefits.
SCC: That estimate seems to not take into account decreasing nutritional content due to higher CO2, and more importantly, seems to declare disasters totally out of scope.
My old home state of New Mexico, in SW USA, gets roughly one plague case per year – https://nmhealth.org/about/erd/ideb/zdp/plg/ . That’s down from 10 cases/year in the peak in the 1980s. We even export our plague. In 2002 a NM couple visited NYC where they fell ill and were diagnosed with plague – https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5231a1.htm .
“While in 1970, only 1% of the American population was obese”. Not true, the article says: “A half-century ago, about 1 in 100 American adults were severely obese” (the corresponding figure for 2020 is “more than 9%”).